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Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet

The foundation, formed in November 2022 after the initial developer StarkWare minted 10 billion STRK tokens, is now awarding early contributors to the Ethereum layer-2 network...

By Bradley Keoun

Oct 30, 2023 at 7:23 p.m. UTC

Oct 30, 2023

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Technology

StarkWare Restores Crypto Access for Delinquent Wallet Updaters, After Complaints on X

After users complained on X, StarkWare walked back on a move in which it implemented an upgrade that made users' funds inaccessible.

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Aug 30, 2023 at 7:45 p.m. UTC

Aug 30, 2023

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Starkware to Open-Source ‘Magic Wand’ of Its Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Next Week

The team behind the layer 2 Starknet blockchain said that they will also hold a code review on Aug. 31 at a conference in San Francisco.

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Aug 22, 2023 at 2:37 p.m. UTC

Aug 22, 2023

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Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Leans Into DeFi With StarkWare

The Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by StarkWare's new appchain technology.

By Brandy Betz

Jul 21, 2023 at 3:24 p.m. UTC

Jul 21, 2023

Technology

StarkWare’s ‘Starknet Stacks’ Could Add to Growing Field of Blockchain-in-a-Box Offerings

The announcement is part of a growing trend in Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem, where developers can create application-specific chains using the blockchain’s native software sta...

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Jul 19, 2023 at 4:18 p.m. UTC

Jul 19, 2023

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Layer-2 Blockchain Starknet's ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Goes Live, for Speedier Transactions

The upgrade for Starknet, a layer-2 blockchain or "rollup" to the Ethereum blockchain, went live following a community vote that overwhelmingly agreed to deploy it to mainnet.

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Jul 12, 2023 at 10:58 a.m. UTC

Jul 12, 2023

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Starknet Plans ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Next Week After Testnet Version Deployed

The upgrade will increase the number of transactions per second the blockchain can handle as well as reduce the time-to-inclusion.

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Jul 5, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. UTC

Jul 5, 2023

Technology

‘Storage Proofs’ Touted as Alternative to Hack-Prone Bridges in Multichain World

Storage proofs, a feature that could minimize cross-chain exploits by allowing users to keep their assets on one chain and prove that it's there on a different chain, will go...